Reverse Dictionary: AGE

(also see OLD)

ADJECTIVES
1000 — EVEN-OLD of the same age → obs.
1340 — FAR advanced in age or knowledge → obs.
1451 — YEARING a year old → obs.
1486 — UNAGED not of age → obs.
1547 — AGEY aged, old, characterized by age → arch.
1581 — IN YEARS aged, old → arch.
1590 — UNDER YEARS below the legal age of majority, under age → obs.
1596 — FULL-AGED of mature age
1603 — YEARED TO THIRTY thirty years of age → obs.
1619 — ELD aged, old, advanced in years → arch.
1649 — COETANEOUS of the same age, equal in age 
1650 — GRANDEVAL of a great age, old, ancient
1655 — COEVOUS of the same age, equally old, having lived the same number of years → obs.
1656 — QUADRAGENARIOUS forty years 
1656 — QUINQUENNIAL five years old (Bk.)
1682 — GRANDEVOUS aged, old; of great age; long-lived → obs.
1696 — OCTOGENARY of the age of eighty years 
1709 — WANTING that is short of a certain age, as ‘wanting of fourteen’ → obs.
1715 — QUINQUAGENARY of fifty years of age 
1727 — MAGNAEVOUS of great age → obs.
..19C — ELDERMER aged, growing old  → Eng. dial.
1818 — OCTOGENARIAN of the age of eighty years 
1822 — QUINQUAGENARIAN of fifty years of age; characteristic of one who is fifty years old 
1827 — EILD-ENCUMBERED burdened or overcome with age → Sc.
1843 — AGE-COEVAL contemporary in age → obs.
1845 — AGEABLE advanced in years → Amer. dial.
1860OLD IN THE TOOTH aged, esp. used of old women
1860UP IN THE TOOTH aged, esp. used of old women
1895 — WANING ageing, growing old 
1896 — ELDED aged, old, advanced in years → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1897 — QUADRAGENARIAN forty years old 
..L19 — OF A DIZZY AGE ageing → UK society usage
1900 — ELDERMERLY aged, growing old → Eng. dial. (Bk.)


NOUNS
1000 ELD an age of the world, a secular period → obs.
1300 ELD conventional or legal age; full age; majority → obs.
1400 FURTHER AGE advanced age → obs.
1524 LESS AGE minority → Sc. obs.
1674 PROVEXITY greatness of age, the being well grown in years, or well studied in any art → obs.
1657 PREVIVATION a living before another; greater age, seniority → obs.
1883 OCTOGENARIANISM the state of being eighty years old 
1885 ANNO DOMINI advance or advancing age → colloq.
1903 AULDNESS age → Sc.


NOUNS, PERSON
1000 — EVEN-OLD a person of the same age → obs.
1580 — BELDAM → BELDAME an aged woman, a matron of advanced years 
1583 — AGEMATE a person of the same age; a contemporary → obs.
1611 — ONE-AND-TWENTY a person twenty-one years of age 
1647 — HIRQUITICKE a person past 14 years of age, beginning to be moved by sexual delight (Bk.)
1722 — EELDINS → EILDINS equals in age, contemporaries, persons born in the same year → Sc.
1728 — YEALING → YEILDIN a contemporary in age → Sc.
1804 — MONTHLING a child a month old, or whose age is counted in months rather than years → obs.
1804 — YEALINS equals in age → Sc.
1815 — OCTOGENARIAN a person eighty years old 
1821 — QUINQUENNARIAN a person who is five years old → obs.
1824 — SIXTEENER a youth of sixteen 
1825 — EENLINS persons of equal age → Sc. obs.
1825 — SCARGIVENET a girl, from twelve to fourteen years of age → Sc. cant
1828 — OCTOGENARY a person eighty years old 
1839 — QUADRAGENARIAN a person forty years of age 
1843 — QUINQUAGENARIAN a person aged fifty, or between fifty and sixty 
1845 — YAMAL → YAMMAL a person born in the same year as another; a contemporary → Sc.
1851 — YEAR’S-MATE a companion of the same age → Sc.
1898 — BAWKEN a lad 10 to 17 years of age → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SKIRGIFFIN a girl from twelve to fourteen years of age; a half-grown woman → Sc. sl. (Bk.)
1905 — NASEBY-CHILD an aged person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 — OLD FOWL an ageing, unattractive and probably overdressed woman → Aust. & W. Indies sl.
1910 — VET an old-timer, an ageing or experienced person → sl.
1940 — DAD the oldest member of a group → World War II Amer. sl.
1940 — OLD SETTLER a woman in her thirties or older → African-American sl.
1958 CREAKER an aged or old person → Amer. dial.
1974 — BABY BOOMER a person born roughly between 1945 and 1955 → US sl.
1983 — BABY BUSTER a person born during a baby bust (a period of marked decrease in the birth rate; spec. (esp. in the US) the years c1965-75, following the post-war baby boom 
1995 — MOTHER-YOUNG-GIRL an ageing woman who tries to be younger than her years → W. Indies
1999 BOILER a woman of a certain age → Aust. sl., derogatory (Bk.)4
2005 — KRONENBURG a woman who looks a lot younger from the front than she does from behind → UK sl.


VERBS
1300 FALL IN AGE to become advanced in years → obs.
1800 BREAK to show signs of aging; to grow old or weak → Amer. dial.
1812 CUT ONE’S EYETEETH to reach the age by which maturity, experience, or shrewdness should have been gained → Amer. dial.
1821 WANE to age, to decline in vigour 
1827 OLDEN to age, to grow old, to become older in appearance or character 
1896 MAJORIZE to come of age, to attain one’s majority 
1902 LAVER to age; to look older → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 OLD MAN to age → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1986 ACT YOUR AGE NOT YOUR SHOE SIZE to behave in a manner appropriate to your years → US sl.